preface
As the last queen of the Qing Dynasty, Wanrong's life was not a life of worry-free food and clothing as the world thinks, but a life of tragedy. At first, Wanrong was also a bright girl, married into the Aixin Jueluo family, but in the end she became a crazy woman, what made such a young lady fall to that kind of fate.
Of course, future generations are even more puzzled, why Wanrong did not choose to divorce Pu Yi like Wenxiu, it can be said that Wanrong's life is a life of involuntarily.
1. Become a queen
Although the Qing Dynasty has come to an end, it has ruled China for hundreds of years, so in order to allow China to achieve a republic as soon as possible, the Republic of China still gave the Qing Dynasty's royal family a very generous treatment, not only giving him four million oceans of living expenses every year, but also allowing him to retain the honorific title, and treating him with the etiquette of treating foreign monarchs.
Who can't say a word after reading it, it is indeed the end of benevolence and righteousness, so although Pu Yi said that he abdicated and there is no emperor in China, he is still the emperor in this one-third of an acre of land in the Forbidden City.
Therefore, when Pu Yi was old enough to get married, there were still many Manchu nobles who wanted to marry their daughters to Pu Yi. Not to mention these Manchu nobles, even some warlords wanted to marry their daughters to him.
Although it has now begun to move towards a republic, the identity of the emperor is still very noble in the eyes of everyone. Not to mention anything else, Yuan Shikai and others were ready to marry Pu Yi at that time. According to the current situation, Pu Yi is still a sweetheart, especially some Manchu nobles also want to marry their daughters to Pu Yi, and Rong Yuan is one of them.
Rong Yuan was the Minister of the Interior in the late Qing Dynasty, a powerful but very enlightened person, who did not stick to feudal ideas in the education of his daughter, but let Wanrong come into contact with some Western ideas and culture. not only let Wanrong read and write, but also find foreigners to teach Wanrong English, of course, Wanrong is also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
It can be said that the daughter who paid such a big price to cultivate, Rong Yuan also has his own ideas, marrying the emperor is a wish of Rong Yuan, although the Qing Dynasty royal family is far less than before, but it is also better than marrying a nobleman to have a future. So when the news came out, Rong Yuan began to pave the way for his daughter to enter the palace.
On the question of who Pu Yi should choose as the queen, the royal family argued endlessly, and Longyu, who had the most right to speak, had passed away, and the rest was Concubine Duankang, who was the concubine of Emperor Guangxu and Concubine Jingyi, who was the concubine of Emperor Tongzhi. Both of them wanted to choose a woman from their close family.
At that time, I took four photos for Pu Yi, and at first Pu Yi didn't take a fancy to Wanrong but Wenxiu, so of course Concubine Duankang was a little unhappy, so Pu Yi circled Wanrong again. But the queen was the only one who finally chose to follow the advice of Concubine Duankang and chose Wanrong as the queen.
It can be said that after entering the palace, the two still spent a relatively warm life, and as mentioned above, Wanrong read poetry and books, and her thinking is also very advanced, this kind of woman will inevitably attract Pu Yi. Knowing that Wanrong likes English, Pu Yi also found a foreign teacher for her to teach Wanrong English.
During the two years in the Forbidden City, Wanrong lived a relatively comfortable life, although she had no freedom, but she didn't have to worry about life or anything.
But two years later, the northwest warlord Feng Yuxiang gradually gained power, and all this changed dramatically, Feng Yuxiang completely denied that he had promised the Manchu royal family, and was no longer willing to pay the Qing royal family's high alimony every year, and also drove Pu Yi and his party out of the Forbidden City.
Second, gradually drift away
Pu Yi still has some loss after leaving the Forbidden City, how to say that it is also the inheritance left to him by his ancestors, so he was buried in his hands, but unlike Pu Yi is Wanrong, Wanrong is very happy to be able to leave the Forbidden City, and then they moved to Tianjin to live.
In Tianjin, Wanrong's excitement can be seen with the naked eye, she is very strange about everything outside, and she also cut her hair, put on new clothes, and the flowerpot bottom shoes to wear in the Forbidden City were also put aside by her and replaced with high heels. Although she is now excited about leaving the palace, she and Pu Yi have also begun to drift apart.
All this has to start from the two just got married, Wanrong sat on the marriage bed on the wedding night and waited for Pu Yi's arrival with anticipation, but Pu Yi only came here to sit for a while and left, and on the night of the wedding, Pu Yi did not stay overnight, and this incident still had a great impact on Wanrong.
It wasn't until a while later that Wanrong knew the reason for the matter, and Pu Yi couldn't complete the husband and wife because of physical reasons. When leaving Beijing, Wen Xiu also left with him, and the marriage of the three was very crowded. At the same time, Wenxiu was unwilling to settle for her current life, so she filed for divorce from Pu Yi.
It can be said that this incident had a great impact on Pu Yi, and for Pu Yi, it made him lose face. But he blamed Wanrong for all this, thinking that it was Wanrong and Wenxiu's jealousy that led to today's situation. At this time, the knot between the two of them will no longer be untied.
And at this time, Pu Yi did not have the heart to care about Wanrong's affairs, he focused on rebuilding the Great Qing Dynasty, he believed the Japanese ghost words, thinking that they were willing to help him. With the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Wanrong, as empress, should also be with Puyi, so the Japanese took Wanrong to Changchun.
3. A life of tragedy
But life in Changchun was like a nightmare for Wanrong, the Japanese looked at Wanrong like a prisoner, and even when she ate, there were people watching her, such a life Wanrong couldn't stand it at all, so she began to plan how to leave, and after that, Wanrong planned many escape plans, but none of them succeeded.
Pu Yi saw that Wanrong was unwilling to take care of her like this, so he asked the maid to take care of her. Wanrong had long been infected with opium because of her depressed mood, and as her life became more and more unpleasant, she smoked opium more and more frequently. During this period, she became closer and closer to the guards around her, and finally Wanrong was pregnant.
When he saw Wanrong again, Pu Yi, who looked at Wanrong's belly, knew the truth of the matter. According to Pu Yi's memoirs, he was very angry when he found out, but he couldn't let the Japanese know about it, and he could only put all this hatred on Wanrong.
After the child was born, Pu Yi threw her into the boiler and burned her alive, and for Wanrong Puyi, she also went directly to the cold palace. It can be said that this imprisonment caused Wanrong's mental problems, and in the end, Wanrong was so sick that she couldn't see and couldn't get out of bed and walk. Of course, no one will heal her.
Just a few days before Japan announced its surrender, Wanrong was captured by guerrillas and imprisoned, and Wanrong spent another difficult year in Jilin Prison before dying.
In Wanrong's last period of time, she was full of hatred, and what she hated the most was her father who sent her to the palace for glory and wealth.
epilogue
Of course, because Wanrong's story is not very far away from today, there are different opinions about whether Wanrong has an adulterous child, and what kind of person she is, Wanrong's younger brother bluntly said that his sister is a kind-hearted and scheming woman, these things will not happen to her, and it can be said that they are all different to this day.